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Scottish presenter Andrew Neil has described the Islamic State (ISIS) as a "barbaric death cult that would shame the middle ages" in a stirring two-minute monologue on Thursday night's edition of BBC current affairs show This Week.

Neil used his opening speech to attack extremists, describing them as "Jihadist losers" before listing all the things and people — from Monet and Camus to Daft Punk and Juliette Binoche — that make France great.

"Whatever atrocities you're currently capable of committing, you will lose," said Neil. "In a thousand years' time Paris, that glorious city of lights, will still be shining bright, as will every other city like it — while you will be as dust."

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